Tag: music marketing
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Inspired to write
Be inspired by nature to write music. There is beauty everywhere you look—in the plants, trees, rivers, and the sky. There’s nothing that needs to be done; just leave the to-do list for now and focus on what inspires you to write a song. Take inspiration from what you see; it doesn’t have to make…
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Never “throw in the towel”
I’ve been writing music for over 40 years. I could have easily given up, traded my guitar for something else, but the thought never even crossed my mind. People often say to ‘follow your dreams,’ but that usually means follow them as long as they align with their expectations for you and your life. This…
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Music Marketing Mistakes
If you’re blindly submitting your band’s music to hundreds of internet playlists without any further engagement, you might be doing more harm than good. Submitting to a massive number of playlists and then neglecting them – never revisiting to see who else is featured or how the playlist is performing – is unproductive and unlikely…
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Music career funny
If you are an independent musician / recording artist you have likely experienced the negativity that comes with taking on a very difficult industry such as the music business. All the “brilliant” people that have made unhelpful and uneducated remarks about my music career, I have only one thing to say… And that is LOL
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Let the music industry come to you by creating a buzz on streaming platforms and blogs
Publishers, music supervisors and record labels are out there looking for new music, but can you be found? Sound Cloud, Spotify, Apple music and hundreds of other places that you can get your music on but that doesn’t mean it will be found. There is so much music being uploaded every day, so you have…
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Marketing my music with no budget
I have launched a plan into action to promote my music on Spotify using only free resources that make my songs look delicious to the Spotify algorithm. I am using only legitimate means during this experiment such as attracting the algorithm organically, promoting by word of mouth and posting on TikTok, and YouTube. When more…
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Luck in life and the music business
There are so many variables in the music business and becoming a super-star is like winning the lottery. Playing the lottery is based on luck, chance, hope, dreams and it’s a lot like the music industry. There is only so many places available at the top, people can only consume so much music and they…
Coffee & a Playlist 